So, I now have an Nspire CX. I have OS 3.1 that I can put on it, when I get to that point.

I'm just curious what kind of dev environment we have that allows us to write Lua and send it to the calc? What I found on education.ti.com is that it's incorporated with OS 3.2, so everything can be done right there.

So basically, looking for the stuff to get started, any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

Everything you need to know about the API (which was changed a lot, and for good, with OS 3.2), is here : http://wiki.inspired-lua.org It covers most of the essential API (although the latest things aren't fully documented yet), with syntax, descirption, examples...
It's based off the official API documentation by TI ( http://education.ti.com/nspire/scripting-api ).

The "best" way to code in the Nspire-Lua language is probably to get the Nspire Computer Software 3.2 which has its integrated Nspire-Lua SDK. You can create 3.1-compatible scripts within that 3.2 software, btw. (creating a document with only a lua script, and putting ' platform.apilevel = "1.0" ' at the beginning of the script.)

Thanks Adri! I currently have my brother over (He's military, been gone for the last 9 months in Kuwait) so I'll try to look at this in much greater detail this coming week. Hopefully once I get a development environment set up, things will go very well, since Lua seems like it is an easy language.

Thanks from me as well. I'm in a slightly different position, in that I know some Lua but I don't know the Nspire-specific APIs. It sounds to me as if the Nspire APIs are more event-driven than what I'm used to programming with Lua, not that I have a problem with that. I'd prefer an on-calculator Lua coding solution, if possible; is there anything (perhaps in Lua?) that doesn't require Ndless?

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